Charter School Students Thriving in New York
Students at the Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City put up some incredible test scores this past year:...
New Missouri Standardized Test Scores Don’t Tell Us a Lot
Are Missouri students learning more or less? Are schools improving? Are teachers adapting to the state’s new standards? Well, the...
Attacking Charter Schools with “Alternative Facts”
In a recent letter to the editor of the Joplin Globe, Caroline Tubbs, a public high school teacher, makes a...
Is This What Full Accreditation Looks Like?
On Tuesday morning, the Missouri Board of Education voted unanimously to grant full accreditation to the St. Louis Public School...
2017 Blueprint: Moving Missouri Forward
The 2017 Blueprint: Moving Missouri Forward presents 15 policy ideas covering a broad ranges of issues – from education to healthcare, from...
Speakers Series on Economic Policy: The Success Academy Experience and Lessons Learned
Eva Moskowitz founded Success Academy Charter Schools in 2006. Over the past ten years, Success has become the largest network...
A Skunk at the Pre-K Garden Party for Cigarette Taxes
The English language offers several beautiful idioms to describe someone unwelcome at a social gathering. The most common, “a skunk...
Statewide MAP Results Are Out, and They Don’t Look Great
Do you remember the feeling you’d get as a student, when the teacher was handing back exams—especially when you weren’t...
Recess-Something So Loved, Only Bureaucrats Could Kill It
I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t like recess. As a former elementary school teacher myself, I can tell you that...
The Never-Ending School Finance Wars
Just like school years come and go and spring fades into summer, controversy over how we fund our schools has...
How Well Are Rural Students Performing?
Without looking up the Show-Me Institute’s new paper on reforming rural schools, would you know off the top of your...
How Much Testing Is Too Much?
From a student’s point of view, standardized testing is stressful, particularly in the elementary school years. It can also be...
Open Boundaries Would Allow More Students to Receive “Tough Love” at North Side
Students in St. Louis have more options today than ever before. From magnet schools to charter schools, students can choose...
All Too Many Missouri Students Are College Bound, but Primed for Failure
Numbers are beginning to roll in on the performance of Missouri’s students on several major national assessments administered last year....
Missouri’s Latest Report Card: C-
The National Center for Education Statistics recently released the latest assessment scores for all 50 states. Missouri ranks in the...
I Was a Good Teacher. I Could Have Been Better
For four years I was an elementary school teacher in southwest Missouri. Not to toot my own horn, but I...
Washington University Faculty Oppose Public Dollars for Stadium; Planners Promise Brew Pub
As we have mentioned many times before, economists are virtually unanimous in their agreement that publicly funded sports stadiums are...
Are Missouri Students Ready for College?
Piggybacking off of Brittany Wagner’s post on ACT results, I wanted to direct your attention to the ACT’s recently released...
Too Much Testing in Public Education – For Teachers
In recent years, the chorus of voices against standardized testing has grown ever louder. Many today believe that there is...
Uber, Education, and Barriers to Entry
What do taxicab cartels and traditional education groups have in common? This is a question I contemplated on a car...
